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[Sea Eagle]

Fished St. Joe 6/7. Wound up 7-8. Kept 6, one little shaker went back. The lake trout is to be smoked for our Canadian fishing trip in August. Also nice steelhead and 4 nice coho. 55’-75’ of water, 58’-64’ was best. Ran small orange colored spoons (some with gold backs) and orange coho dodger/peanut fly combos on a 9 rod set of Downriggers down 40’ and 50’, 3 and 4 colors leadcore, 100’, 150’ and 200’ of copper. Went south out of the pierhead all the way down to Cook. Water temp was 62 at the surface and 58 at the ball.

 

Had something weird that’s never happened before. The one we lost came unbuckled just as we went to net it. It appeared to not be hooked. Fought it all the way in and all we had to show for our efforts was a cross hooked, mangled bait fish ripped out of the fishes mouth. That fish was hanging on for dear life to his dinner then said the hell with this nonsense when he saw the net.

 

Lots of bait balls in the water including this little guy. Not sure what he was thinking. He was legitimately hooked in the mouth so we went 8-9 if you count this one too Cleaned fish were full of bait fish.

 

 

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[FBD]

Gotta appreciate a fish that has dinner then decided it needs more.  That’s crazy…

[SeaFoam]

New style meat rig! Crazy


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[zgrinder on Fin Warrior]

Good coho fishing in St Joe.  Hoping the coho migrate up the lake in the near future.  Would enjoy adding a few to my dinner table!